impacted
English
impact
English
Noun
(en noun )
The striking of one body against another; collision.
The force or energy of a collision of two objects.
- The hatchet cut the wood on impact .
(chiefly, medicine) A forced impinging.
- His spine had an impingement; L4 and L5 made impact , which caused numbness in his leg.
A significant or strong influence; an effect.
- His friend’s opinion had an impact on his decision.
- Our choice of concrete will have a tremendous impact on the building’s mechanical performance.
Usage notes
* Adjectives often applied to “impact”: social, political, physical, positive, negative, good, bad, beneficial, harmful, significant, great, important, strong, big, small, real, huge, likely, actual, potential, devastating, disastrous, true, primary.
* The adposition generally used with “impact” is “on” (such as in last example in section above)
* There are English speakers who are so ). In defensive editing, the solution is to replace the figurative noun sense with effect” and the verb sense with ”affect , which nearly always produces an acceptable result. (Rarely, a phrase such as “the impact of late effects” is better stetted to avoid “the effect of […] effects”.)
Derived terms
* impactful
* impactive
* impact statement
* Western impact
Verb
(en verb )
To compress; to compact; to press or pack together.
- If fecal incontinence is caused by impacted stool in the rectum, the impaction must be removed.
(proscribed) To influence; to affect; to have an on.
- ”I can make the changes, but it will impact the schedule.
To collide or strike.
- When the hammer impacts the nail, it bends.
Usage notes
Some authorities object to the verb sense of impact”, meaning “to influence; to affect; to have an impact on” or “to collide or strike”. Although most .
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affected
English
Adjective
(en adjective )
influenced or changed by something
- The affected compass was impossible to use, so we got lost.
simulated in order to impress
- He spoke with an affected English accent.
Emotionally moved; touched.
(algebra, archaic) adfected
- an affected equation
Resulting from a mostly negative physical effect or transformation
Noun
(en noun )
Someone , as by a disease.
Verb
(head)
(affect)
- The thunderstorm affected the compass, and we got lost.
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